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Re: Matlab - RMS-value
Posted:
Oct 11, 2012 11:16 AM
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"Tom Lane" <tlane@mathworks.com> wrote in message <k56js0$he1$1@newscl01ah.mathworks.com>...
> > RMS1 = sqrt( mean(inVec)^2 + var(inVec) );
> > RMS2 = sqrt( 1/length(inVec) * sum(inVec.^2) );
> ...
> > Why is there a difference ? Round-off error or something else ?
>
> You're right, something else. Ordinarily var uses 1/(n-1) rather than 1/n in
> estimating the variance of a sample of size n. You can supply a flag to get
> it to use 1/n, and then the results match:
>
> >> v = 1:10;
> >> sqrt(mean(v)^2 + var(v))
> ans =
> 6.2783
> >> sqrt(1/length(v) * sum(v.^2))
> ans =
> 6.2048
> >> sqrt(mean(v)^2 + var(v,1))
> ans =
> 6.2048
>
> -- Tom
There's also:
>> rmsval = norm(1:10) / sqrt(length(1:10))
rmsval =
6.2048e+000
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